Imps' networking team save you time and money by optimising your systems for maximum reliability and ease of maintenance.

Example: Imps have recently completed a major network redesign and rewiring exercise for the NHS National Patient Safety Agency.

The NPSA had been plagued by a series of network outages, with a team of engineers taking around a day to find the source of the problem each time. CDS-Imps defined cable colour and labelling schemes, then replaced every network cable in the building with certified & tested cables. Throughout the racks, cables were labelled, organised in bunches of six, and routed such that any failed hardware can be swapped out in a couple of minutes. We then installed set-up SNMP monitoring using MRTG (Multi-router Traffic Grapher) to provide the network team with up-to-the-minute status for every single switch-port throughout the building.

Although we now offer hosting and website design services, we began life as a network security company specialising in Checkpoint Firewall-1.

Good network security depends on having well configured and maintained perimeter defenses to protect your critical business systems. Even a small misconfiguration can leave your systems vulnerable to attack from Internet intruders.

Over the past 8 years, we have worked both for and with some of the major players in the managed security market helping them to implement their own managed firewall offerings based around Checkpoint products. We have installed and upgraded network systems for banks, public sector and multinationals and of course, we manage security for all of our hosting customers.

If you're expanding your network, building VPNs, or just need help with firewall system installation, upgrades or configuration then give us a call.

Our in-house expert has over eight years' experience in the development and deployment of corporate-level natural language help systems - that is, programs (usually embedded in a website) which respond to input in 'natural' languages (e.g. English) as opposed to programming languages (e.g. C++). Major commercial applications for this type of system have been predominantly in the field of customer service, where such systems have a proven track record of reducing overheads and improving service - by answering common enquiries before they reach the call centre. Recent years have also seen increasing commercial development of this technology in the field of interactive entertainment.

Since Q4 2005 CDS-Imps have been working in a consultancy role on a number of major natural language help system projects with Creative Virtual - the UK, Irish and US distributors of the market-leading Lingubot Creator software platform.